Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

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> (JS)
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> 1.  Biblical Hebrew records primarily consonants.  At Genesis 18: 2 we see
$L$H, but I don’t think anyone views that as an initial consonant
cluster.  It’s
thought to be $ + implied vowel + L +implied vowel + $ + H.

> However, a lamed/L is [like a resh/R] a so-called “sonorant”, and according 
> to some linguists, a Hebrew could pronounce $ + sonorant + vowel as a 
> single syllable. “The words for ‘2’ are the only words in the language that 
> commence with an initial consonant cluster, permissible because of the 
> sibilant + sonorant combination in *s**nayim *and the sibilant + stop in 
> *s**tayim *(see Hoberman 1989).”  “Ancient Hebrew Morphology”, by Gary A. 
> Rendsburg.**
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> All of N and L and R are sonorants.  Since $N is possible [and attested 
> once in Biblical Hebrew] as an initial consonant cluster, $L + vowel and $R 
> + vowel are theoretically possible as well, though not attested in Biblical 
> Hebrew.
>
> (PP)
>
> In my learning days L and R were called "liquid" consonants
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>  because they can be easily pronounced with  -or, better, after-  another 
> consonant as in* blow, bread.*
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>> But, what about the biblical (K)PG$ we find in Jr 41:6? (of course we have 
>> to mentally discard K) or about SPQ in Ez 21:17?
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>> It is alike that a (biblical) Hebrew could utter Shrek since he could 
>> utter SFOQ, isn't it?
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>> Pere Porta
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>> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
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